Nothing displays the power of the corporate media quite like the answers people give to various questions around election time.
Every election season, a Republican media personality or social media influencer will go out to a Democrat gathering and begin asking questions that usually revolve around why that particular person is voting for the Democrat nominee. The usual response is a sudden freezing and confession that they can't answer the question because they don't know of any accomplishments, or they terminate the interview right then and there.
You can see a myriad of examples this election season thanks to Kamala Harris being the DNC's nominee, a woman whose only real accomplishment is a stunning ability to fail upward. Watching people try to answer what exactly she's done that's so great is equally painful, but fascinating to watch.
Like this...
Or this...
Likewise, pollster Frank Luntz tried to find someone who could answer the quetion and found that the vast majority could not.
You might be asking "how," but the answer is obvious. This is the power of the corporate media machine at work and if you were to pull back and look at it, as if you were an alien in space watching humanity, you would have to admit that this is an incredibly impressive feat.
Looking at it from the outside, you can see a global operation with so much funding, manpower, and influence that they can sell a blatant lie in the midst of a great number of people pointing to the fact that it's a lie. This is something that doesn't just happen. A lot of coordination, cash, and agreement to engage in this level of evil has to take place for all the cogs to move. Moreover, it takes an ungodly amount of momentum to carry these lies forward.
But it also requires a fine balance. You make people too scared or interested and they may start paying attention. Once they start paying attention and begin looking into things themselves, you run the risk of them stumbling across the truth and that could have disastrous results.
But interestingly, making them too lazy could also create problems because if they're not at least interested in listening or viewing what you're saying in the first place, they can be swayed by anyone remotely paying attention. There are more people paying attention every day.
This is where third-party saturation plays a massive and more pervasive role. As I wrote last week, Democrats are able to spread whatever lie they want because non-political entities such as fashion blogs, celebrity gossip rags, and the like will inadvertently carry their message for them. Influencers may say something off-hand that causes an opinion to develop in a follower.
In fact, this is how most people in America get their information:
So, where did they get their political information? From entertainment, shopping sites, celebrity gossip pages — all the things that people prefer in comparison to news and public affairs. These non-news sites emerged as the dominant source of political information simply by virtue of the volume of activity there compared with the little time spent on news sites.
“Even though politics in these kinds of [non-news] sites comprised only 1.6% of all visits,” the authors write, “the aggregate popularity of webmail, entertainment, shopping sites, or celebrity gossip means that an average citizen encounters most political content outside news [our emphasis added]. People, especially Americans and especially those with low political interest…encounter politics more frequently outside news outlets than within.”
(READ: Why Americans Are Still Easily Swayed by Democrat Lies)
They aren't looking at the news like you and I are, and paying attention to current events. Most people live their lives without engaging in politics, finding it bothersome and even distasteful (I don't blame them), and focusing on their immediate surroundings and personal lives... which is how it should be and would be if we lived in a perfect world.
These are the most affected by number, but the most active are the ones that the media infects with spite. These kinds of people are the corporate media's crowning achievement. They can look at the truth and deny it to its face simply based on the fact that they've been so brainwashed that they don't want to believe it and will repeat a thing they know is a lie in order to feel justified in their spitefulness.
That's why moments like this can happen at the DNC and no one there bats an eye.
All of these moving parts together create a complex that could be considered one of the most influential entities in the known universe. For decades, nothing has come close to achieving what it has.
At least until recently. The one thing that the corporate media continuously struggles against is the free circulation of information on the internet. When Elon Musk bought Twitter, it was a really bad day for the corporate media which quakes with rage at the fact that people can just say whatever they want whenever they want. Funny enough, the more truthful the thing being said, the angrier they become.
The good news is that the age of corporate media is slowly drawing to a close thanks to the internet. It can't come fast enough, but its influence is definitely waning, and part of that is all you.